Denise Murrell, PhD

Tisch Curator at Large, Office of the Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Denise Murrell, PhD, is the Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Office of the Director, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was the curator of the exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today (2018/19) at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery as its Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar. She was a co-curator of the exhibition’s expansion at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, as Le Modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse (2019) and a guest lecturer for its final tour at the Memorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Dr. Murrell has taught art history at Columbia University in New York and in Paris. She has published and lectured extensively on nineteenth -twentieth century modernism and global contemporary art. In December 2022 Dr. Murrell was named Chevalier (Knight) de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.